Apparently Lauren's warm-ups are looking good, she appears to be working extremely hard (especially on her beam series). Live updates from the arena are coming from The Gymnastics Examiner, see the link above.

Best shot so far is the ten-minutes delayed Georgian television feed here: http://tvali.ge/index.php?action=sat&channel=70955

EDIT: After some very strong performances, Lauren finishes outside of the medals in 4th place. Her 15.200 was a fantastic score (her best of the competition I believe?) and proof she can hit when it counts. Onya Loz! Good luck for floor.

Veetle feed is up! Currently doing a beam wrap-up (on slight delay I think). I think it's the BBC feed!

http://www.veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4caf5326c8e9a great quality footage and information from Tweddle/Smith on each event.

FX: Up last, hope she can control her nerves. It has been a HUGE three weeks for her.

24:55 AEDST they've marched in but we're not seeing the intros. Beth gives a shout-out to Lauren as a medal chance.

Loz in the crimson/black 2009 Worlds prelim leo. Here goes...

HITS the arabiab stag! Big hope back on piked full in wolf turn a tad messy AWESOME 2.5 to layout. Hops back on double pike but WOWZERS great job.

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about Lauren's warmup from gym examiner:

The floor warmup is over, but people are still working hard on beam, especially Mitchell, who has done her flight series a few times now. She's having a few little problems with it, but it looks more like she's fine-tuning than anything else. She just needs to let it happen.

I'm looking forward to seeing these routines when they come up on you tube. Can they all be that close? Did they start to high and leave themselves no room to move to separate the gymnasts? What the.......

Those other girls are such big names too....Aussies just don't have the reputation like Bross etc.Sue, Lauren got silver last year.....but maybe that's not quite enough to have a 'big' reputation like the other girls do. Amazing final though - was very, very tough. Lauren - hit what more could you ask for?? Will be interesting to see what Peggy's comments are.

I called it earlier. It's no coincidence that Lauren was down on Bross and Deng by the smallest margin capable (0.033). After lack lustre performances from the Chinese and Romanian teams and Bross individually they were due for some judge love. If Lauren hada different leo on she could've been the winner.

Just watched Lauren's and Bross's routines and I must say Lauren is so much prettier to watch than Bross, however what I think gives Bross the edge is her attack and confidence she displays (oh and plus the fact she wears the US leotard of course :))Well done to Lauren - oh so close

Bross really isn't very graceful though. Lauren's got power and gracefulness that should be rewarded! But, that's the way it goes - she can't be too disappointed - she hit - you can't do anymore than that! I agree, though Bross is very confident up there - she jumps up on the beam and does not pause for a tiny second - goes straight to her turn. Bordering on rushed, at times I think. The thing that should have given Lauren a bit more of an edge is her 2.5 spin thing - noone else comes close to doing that. Was there anything particularly original in the other routines that medalled?

I agree - Lauren did a triple wolf turn. Bross did a single only. Just watched Porgras's beam and there's no way IMO she deserved the gold. She had 2 noticable wobbles - her flick, BHS, layout series was no where near as good as Laurens with a wobble at the end and her dismount had quite a deep squat and a step forward. If Lauren was in any other leo she would have medalled today. So dissapointing!!!

Lauren did a beautiful job, and that's all you can ask for really. A bit disappointing because an extra tenth here or there from the judges makes such a difference, and when you are up 2nd and against the Romanians/Chinese/Russians/Americans it's a little harder to score well.

But we should be so proud of her for hitting her best routine of this marathon set of competitions tonight. I'm sure she is exhausted.

Going forward I would love to see her replace the double pike with a double arabian for her dismount, because she is really struggling to get her chest up on the pike as she has gotten taller.

It's frustrating that she nails the layout but missed the switch half back tuck combo. If she had nailed that like she had earleir in the week the extra 0.1 CV and lack of a wobble deduction would have had her in first. goin up second really didn't do her any favours yet somehow I don't see going up last infloor will do her any either.

I was so nervous before this final but whemn I saw the top 3 qualifiers mess up I knew it was a huge oppurtunity. I was sitting here willing her to get a 5.9 D score and to land everything to her feet. So thrilled reight now. Really aleviates the disappointment of the BB final. I really thought she'ld be a much bigger threat in BB than floor.

Who needs to be Commonwealth Champ on floor when you're WORLD CHAMPION!

PEGGY singing the national anthem??!! Wow - that is amazing in its self....you know how Americans are with their Anthem - hand over the heart and all that. What more can be said!?? I can't wait until this comes up on youtube! Peggy must have learnt the words!! I mean lets be honest, most Aussies learn the words in primary school - they don't leanrn them when they are an adult - even if you are a national coach! But full credit to herfor learning them - my respect for her just went up!!

WOW - I am so happy we have finally had this happen!! Trudy, allana and a few others went pretty close at times, but only to miss out....or atleast they had the routines if you like...but LAUREN HAS DONE IT. I beat Liz C is crying too!!

Peggy has been living here for what, 13 years? I think she's married to an Australian too which was the reason for her coming here in the first place. I'm sure she'll always feel American but afterall this timeshe's certain to feel some patriotism for Australia too.

Beth: "It's basically anyone's game today, the start values are all similar."

Gabby: "You're not going to er give us a name then [Beth laughs], who you think is going to do it? What about Lauren Mitchell, she's had a good competition, not got a medal yet."

Beth: "Yeah er, I'd love to see her up there, I mean obviously last year she had two silvers, um she was just pushed out of the medals on beam, so she'll definately be out there fighting for a medal on floor."